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Philosophy

Order, Entropy and the Antisymmetry of Persistence

What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.

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cybernetics

How Language Shapes Human Thought, Identity and Behaviour

Language does not merely describe civilisation. It quietly engineers the conditions of its own persistence through us.

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Philosophy

the machinery of greed is consuming the future

A civilisation organised around limitless acquisition on a finite planet turns systemic collapse into a KPI.

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cybernetics

why destructive identities take hold

Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.

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Philosophy Psychology

why you can never fully know yourself

The self depends on a membrane of belief separating “me” from the world, though almost everything constructing that “me” comes from elsewhere.

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Philosophy

selected essays: systems, communication and contemporary life

Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.

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Philosophy

unbalanced: political recursion

Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.

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Philosophy

outer limits: impredicativity

Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.

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cybernetics

communication theory: local convergence and the generative attractor

Communication converges locally while preserving uncertainty globally. Temporary centres stabilise meaning, a wider field remains generative rather than resolved.

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Psychology

immaturity: why adults never really grow up

Psychological maturity does not replace immaturity. It incorporates it, organises it, and learns how to live through it.

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cybernetics

the good, the bad and the ugly of political communication

The ugly implication is that communicative success bears no necessary relationship to truth, intelligence, morality or long-term viability.

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cybernetics

australian universities are broken

The institutions tasked with examining society have become incapable of examining themselves.